pastor

See also: Pastor, pastôr, and păstor

English

Alternative forms

pastour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pastour, from Old French pastor (Modern French pasteur), from Latin pāstor.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːstə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpæstɚ/
Rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ), -æstə(ɹ)
Homophone: pasta (Australia, New Zealand, Northern England)

Noun

pastor (plural pastors)

(now rare) Someone who tends to a flock of animals: synonym of shepherd.
Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people.
Synonym: shepherd

Hypernym: cleric

Coordinate terms: imam, guru, rabbi, sangha
(Protestantism) A minister or priest in a church.
Synonyms: elder, pastor-teacher

Hypernym: cleric
(Roman Catholicism, US) The main priest serving a parish.
Synonym: parish priest

Hypernym: cleric

Coordinate term: parochial vicar
A bird, the rosy starling.
- 1944, Country Life, volume 95, page 820:
  Agricultural officers have put it on record that the pastor must on balance be considered beneficial on account of the vast quantities of locusts which it destroys.

Derived terms

Related terms

al pastor

Translations

shepherd — see shepherd

minister or priest

Arabic: قِسِّيس (ar) m (qissīs)
Belarusian: па́стар m (pástar)
Bulgarian: па́стор (bg) m (pástor)
Catalan: capellà (ca) m (Catholic), mossèn (ca) m (Catholic), sacerdot (ca) m (Catholic), pastor (ca) m (Protestant)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 傳道人／传道人 (cyun⁴ dou⁶ jan⁴), 牧師／牧师 (muk⁶ si¹) (usually ordained)

Mandarin: 傳道人／传道人 (chuándàorén), 牧師／牧师 (zh) (mùshī) (usually ordained)
Finnish: pastori (fi), pappi (fi)
French: pasteur (fr) m
German: Pastor (de) m, Pastorin (de) f
Greek: πάστορας (el) m (pástoras)
Indonesian: pendeta (id)
Japanese: 牧師 (ja) (ぼくし, bokushi)
Korean: 목사 (ko) (moksa)
Plautdietsch: Prädja m
Polish: pastor (pl) m
Portuguese: pastor (pt) m
Russian: па́стор (ru) m (pástor)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: faraŕ m
Spanish: pastor (es) m
Tagalog: pastor
Ukrainian: па́стор m (pástor)
Vietnamese: mục sư (vi)

main priest serving a parish

Catalan: rector (ca) m (Catholic), mossèn (ca) m (Catholic)
Finnish: pastori (fi)
Greek: εφημέριος (el) m (efimérios)
Indonesian: pastor (id)
Italian: pastore (it) m
Polish: proboszcz (pl) m
Russian: настоя́тель (ru) m (nastojátelʹ)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: faraŕ m
Tagalog: pastor
Ukrainian: настоя́тель m (nastojátelʹ)
Vietnamese: cha xứ, cha chính xứ, cha chánh xứ

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Breton: ^{(please verify)} pastor (br) m
Chichewa: ^{(please verify)} mbusa
Chinese:
Cantonese: ^{(please verify)} 牧師／牧师 (muk⁶ si¹)

Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 牧師／牧师 (zh) (mùshī)
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} pastoor (nl) m, ^{(please verify)} dominee (nl) m
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} pastoro (eo)
Fijian: ^{(please verify)} alatala (fj)
French: ^{(please verify)} pasteur (fr) m
Galician: ^{(please verify)} pastor (gl) m
German: ^{(please verify)} Pastor (de) m, ^{(please verify)} Pastorin (de) f, ^{(please verify)} Pfarrer (de) m, ^{(please verify)} Pfarrerin (de) f
Alemannic German: ^{(please verify)} Heer m
Hindi: ^{(please verify)} पादरी (hi) (pādrī)
Icelandic: prestur (is) m
Italian: ^{(please verify)} pastore (it)
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 牧師 (ja) (bokushi)
Korean: ^{(please verify)} 목사님 (moksanim), ^{(please verify)} 목사 (ko) (moksa)
Lingala: ^{(please verify)} mobáteli class 1/2
Norman: ^{(please verify)} pasteur m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ^{(please verify)} pastor m

Nynorsk: ^{(please verify)} pastor m
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} pastor (es) m, ^{(please verify)} pastora (es) f
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} pastor (sv)
Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} пастор m (pastor)
Welsh: ^{(please verify)} bugail m

Verb

pastor (third-person singular simple present pastors, present participle pastoring, simple past and past participle pastored)

(Christianity, transitive, intransitive, stative) To serve a congregation as pastor
- 2009 January 21, Shaila Dewan, “Epic Campaign Divided Family, Then United It”, in New York Times‎:
  As they pastored churches in Georgia and Texas, they supported talented black politicians who were unable to win statewide office.

Anagrams

Portas, Sproat, asport, portas, sap rot, saprot

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan pastor, from Latin pāstōrem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

pastor m (plural pastors)

shepherd, herder
pastor, priest

Derived terms

pastor alemany

Related terms

References

“pastor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“pastor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
“pastor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“pastor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pastor. Doublet of pastores.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: pas‧tor
IPA^(key): /pasˈtoɾ/,

Noun

pastór

Related terms

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch pastoor, from Middle Dutch pastōor, from Latin pāstor, from pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pastor/
Hyphenation: pas‧tor

Noun

pastor (first-person possessive pastorku, second-person possessive pastormu, third-person possessive pastornya)

(Christianity, Roman Catholicism) parish priest

Derived terms

pastoran

Latin

Etymology

From pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːs.tor/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tor/,

Noun

pāstor m (genitive pāstōris, feminine pāstrīx); third declension

A person who tends sheep; shepherd.
- 25 BC, Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4
  Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
  Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.
  The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
  the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
A Christian who takes care of the spiritual needs of other Christians
- 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Ephesians 4:11
  et ipse dedit quosdam quidem apostolos quosdam autem prophetas alios vero evangelistas alios autem pastores et doctores
  And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pāstor	pāstōrēs
Genitive	pāstōris	pāstōrum
Dative	pāstōrī	pāstōribus
Accusative	pāstōrem	pāstōrēs
Ablative	pāstōre	pāstōribus
Vocative	pāstor	pāstōrēs

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Asturian: pastor
Esperanto: pastro
Friulian: pastôr
→ German: Pastor
- → Romanian: pastor
Italian: pastore
→ Middle Dutch: pastoor
- Dutch: pastoor
  - Afrikaans: pastoor
  - → Lokono: pastoro
  - → Papiamentu: pastor
  - → West Frisian: pastoar
- Limburgish: pestoear
- West Flemish: paster
Old French: pastre
- French: pâtre
→ Old French: pastor
- → English: pastor
- French: pasteur
- Norman: pâteu'
Old Occitan: pastor
- Catalan: pastor
- Occitan: pastor
Old Occitan:
- Occitan: pastre
Portuguese: pastor
Romanian: păstor
Romansch: pastur, pastour
→ Russian: пастор (pastor)
- → Kazakh: пастор (pastor)
Sicilian: pasturi
Spanish: pastor
- → Cebuano: pastor
- → Northern Puebla Nahuatl: paxtol
- → Tagalog: pastol, pastor
→ Swedish: pastor
- → Finnish: pastori
Venetian: pastor

References

“pastor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“pastor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
pastor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“pastor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

pastor

Wikipedia ^nb

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pāstor.

Noun

pastor m (definite singular pastoren, indefinite plural pastorer, definite plural pastorene)

(religion) pastor

References

“pastor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pāstor.

Noun

pastor m (definite singular pastoren, indefinite plural pastorar, definite plural pastorane)

(religion) pastor

References

“pastor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

pastur

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pāstor, pāstōrem. Compare the inherited doublet pastre.

Noun

pastor oblique singular, m (oblique plural pastors, nominative singular pastre, nominative plural pastor)

shepherd
(Christianity) pastor

Descendants

English: pastor
French: pasteur, pâtre

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin pāstor, pāstōrem.

Noun

pastor m (oblique plural pastors, nominative singular pastors, nominative plural pastor)

shepherd

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pastor.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tɔr/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -astɔr
Syllabification: pas‧tor

Noun

pastor m pers

(Protestantism) pastor (in Protestant churches)
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ksiądz

Declension

Declension of pastor

	singular	plural
nominative	pastor	pastorzy/pastorowie/pastory (deprecative)
genitive	pastora	pastorów
dative	pastorowi	pastorom
accusative	pastora	pastorów
instrumental	pastorem	pastorami
locative	pastorze	pastorach
vocative	pastorze	pastorzy/pastorowie/pastory (deprecative)

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

pastor

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pastor, from Latin pāstōrem.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /pasˈtoʁ/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /pasˈtoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /paʃˈtoʁ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pasˈtoɻ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐʃˈtoɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐʃˈto.ɾi/

Hyphenation: pas‧tor

Noun

pastor m (plural pastores, feminine pastora, feminine plural pastoras)

herdsman; herder (someone who tends livestock)
(in particular) shepherd (someone who tends sheep)
herding dog (any of several breeds of dog originally used to herd livestock)
1. Ellipsis of pastor alemão.
(figurative, chiefly religion) shepherd (one who watches over or guides others)
(Protestantism) the chief clergyman of a Protestant congregation: a pastor, minister or parson

Derived terms

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pastor, from Latin pāstor. Compare the inherited doublet păstor.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tor/

Noun

pastor m (plural pastori)

(Protestantism) pastor, priest

Declension

Declension of pastor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pastor	pastorul	(niște) pastori	pastorii
genitive/dative	(unui) pastor	pastorului	(unor) pastori	pastorilor
vocative	pastorule		pastorilor